This listing is an interesting pair of pages from the book of Senate records documenting two important resolutions by the Massachusetts Legislature in 1868.

• Relative to the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Scott versus Sandford. This act reaffirmed Massachusetts’ prohibition of slavery, stated that Massachusetts would not abide by the Supreme Court’s ruling, and stated that all Massachusetts citizens regardless of color were entitled to the rights, privileges, and immunities of citizenship.
• Relative to the admission of Kansas into the Union as a State. This act states that the Lecompton Constitution proposed for Kansas, which included limits on the rights of freed slaves, was not an acceptable proposal and that approving it without the consent of the people of Kansas was treasonous.

These items are the actual pages from the 1868 Senate Proceedings Book.